netdev - Re: do a single memdup_user in sctp

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Date:   Fri, 22 May 2020 16:11:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hch@....de
Cc:     vyasevich@...il.com, nhorman@...driver.com,
        marcelo.leitner@...il.com, kuba@...nel.org,
        David.Laight@...LAB.COM, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: do a single memdup_user in sctp_setsockopt

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 19:46:35 +0200

> based on the review of Davids patch to do something similar I dusted off
> the series I had started a few days ago to move the memdup_user or
> copy_from_user from the inidividual sockopts into sctp_setsockopt,
> which is done with one patch per option, so it might suit Marcelo's
> taste a bit better.  I did not start any work on getsockopt.

I think you and David still need to discuss how to move forward here,
there doesn't seem to be consensus yet.

Thanks.